Halakhah for Pesachim 55:8
תניא כוותיה דרבה תניא כוותיה דרב יוסף תניא כוותיה דרבה היה מהלך במדבר מפרר וזורה לרוח היה מהלך בספינה מפרר ומטיל לים תניא כוותיה דרב יוסף היה מהלך במדבר שוחק וזורה לרוח היה מהלך בספינה שוחק ומטיל לים
And the scholars asked: How is it meant: He crushes and throws it to the wind, or he crushes and casts it into the sea; or perhaps, he crushes and throws it to the wind, but he may cast it into the sea whole [without crushing? ]-Said Rabbah: It is logical that an idol, which goes into the Dead Sea, need not be crushed;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For the Dead Sea is unnavigable; hence none will pick it up.');"><sup>10</sup></span> leaven, which goes into other streams, needs crumbling.
Sefer HaChinukh
And they, may their memory be blessed, already informed us (Sanhedrin 21b) why we do not know the reason for all of the commandments; and they said that the thing is that it not become a stumbling block for us. And they brought a proof, as behold, the reason for three of them was revealed, and a great man of the world stumbled upon them. And let not a quibbler think to come against me with the metaphor that they, may their memory be blessed, said (Pesachim 28a), "The spoon carved by the carpenter will burn his mouth with mustard," about that which I said now: That God, may He be blessed, hid the reasons from the commandments from us, and [yet] I have raised my hand to speak about them to my youth. As my teachers have already preceded me to speak several things about them in the Midrashim and in other places, by way of their simple understanding. And the depth of their wisdom, the strength of their understanding and their great holiness is stored in them - and even all the winds of the world cannot move them. And [regarding] anyone who is [able to] deepen counsel in their simple understanding, because he longs to 'peer through the lattice,' to delight in the splendor of their vision and to gather from their leaves to gird himself with them - it is not fit to place blame upon him, but to bless him and to mention him for praise, 'in that he is there.'
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